@EternalStar: The anime style is probably gone for good. I think they realized people hated it and it got ditched for OoE.

@Ueziel: Yeah, I'll take these names over numbered sequels any day.

@Szin: Flying Mario was very under utilized in Galaxy... hopefully it'll be more abundant in the sequel.

If it's related to Harmony of Dissonance, maybe it'll also be sort of a hybrid of the old and newer style of Castlevania games. Meaning that it's not level based, but has the traditional weapon assortment and not so much of an RPG aspect.

With Castlevania, I don't think it's hard to go back to the old style... both are good. That's as long as we're talking about something like SC IV where the controls are actually good.

@LucasFFXI: Not less, but about three times more.

Looks like a Castlevania werewolf.

@abort_user: There are no ads in South Park. Products are mentioned as a biproduct of the current event storylines.

@Relysis: The best part is that they eat the plates too.

@Shin-Kaiser: Maybe if you give him an ax or at least a sword.

If they're still trying to pass this off as Castlevania, they should really include more than the presence of a whip in screenshots to prove it. Maybe show some 3D versions of typical enemies... it's not like there's a shortage to choose from. Sasquatch and giant club guy aren't cutting it.

@uncutlateralus: I play 360 and PC games too. I just see a lot more worth buying on the Wii. Don't know what you mean by "older games" though. The only one I mentioned, A Boy and his Blob, was a 2009 release. I didn't mean the NES version.

@Uiru: Well said... and similar to you, I have seven 360 games to go with my pile of Wii games.

@uncutlateralus: I think the introduction of new, successful portable systems (PSP and Apple's stuff) would tend to spike the numbers quite a bit. Previous generations only had Nintendo portables worth mentioning.

Just say "dedicated servers" and I won't care much about anything else. Gears 2 multiplayer is great, but so inconsistent from game to game depending on the host connection.

@Jonathan Rose: Flat out wrong.

@Koda89: Bingo... if consumers continue to send the message that this is okay, then it's only going to keep getting worse.

Maybe this is the perfect series for a video game movie since the story is so minimal in the game that no one will complain that the movie screwed it up. Just throw in the same characters and do anything.

@Chocobo_Shepherd: My backlog of games is big enough (mostly on the Wii), so better that I don't get caught up in another multiplayer game. I actually played The Conduit instead of one of my other unopened games because I read it was pretty short and I wanted to easily take one off the list.

It looks decent, but I bet they had a lot to go... otherwise why keep showing the same few scenarios over and over for four minutes?